COLORS—Members of the Bruce Wayne Osborne Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7034 parade the colors during an event at Alleghany High School Tuesday. Photo by Laura Thornburg

Veterans attend numerous events

The Bruce Wayne Osborne Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7034 held a flag retirement ceremony last Saturday at the VFW Post building in Sparta. The event marked the first of a number of activities leading up to Veterans Day, celebrated today, Nov. 11. Numerous local veterans attended an annual veterans service at New Covenant Church on Sunday morning, which began with a gun salute outside.

AT LEFT - OLD GLORY—Boy Scouts from Troop No. 251 lower the flag at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post in preparation to raise a tattered flag that was honored before being retired. The retirement ceremony eventually led to the post burning some 78 flags, the ashes of which were subsequently buried—the prescribed manner for disposing of flags that are no longer suitable for flying. Photo by Coby LaRue